<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- <DIV>From: "Ron Nossaman" <<A href="mailto:RNossaman@cox.net"><FONT = color=#000000>RNossaman@cox.net</FONT></A>></DIV> <DIV>To: "Pianotech" <<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT color=#000000>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A>></DIV> <DIV>Sent: February 08, 2003 9:55 PM</DIV> <DIV>Subject: Re: The Mother of all Bellyrails</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>> <BR>> <BR>> I couldn't tell, but I was wondering why the = bridge went in a different <BR>> direction with each change from mono-, to = bi-, to trichords.<BR>> <BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Here is a better shot = of all that bridge work</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><IMG style="WIDTH: 616px; HEIGHT: 405px" height=426 alt="" = hspace=0 src="cid:000701c2d05a$71fdfce0$0100007f@delsmachine" width=637 = align=baseline border=0></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>You can just see that = the tail of the tenor bridge and the transition bridge are both on the same maple = base piece. It curves around just inside of the plate curve. Nicely stiff and = massive. What you can't see is that they whole thing also floats just = like the bass. And, also just like the bass, it has a network of added spacers = and monster buttons.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" = color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>